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Gavin Newsome announced that he is out.

Like he EVER had a chance???

Kats seems to have a problem with progression. Does serving the maximum 2 terms as governor and then being required to no longer be governor qualify as quitting? Does every aspirant who attends seminary but choses not to continue a flake or failure? I think not. Exploring spiritual options and then deciding to pursue secular interests from a spiritual base is honorable. Only a small number of candidates for the priesthood find themselves ordained. The process is designed to winnow out those who might find other interests. What did Brown leave to return to the AG position for the second iteration? Finding character flaws in this man is a bit like jousting with windmills.

He doesn't have any character flaws? Thats impressive.

Ok, I'll give you that he had to leave the governorship. Trying for president, leaving politics because you didn't win is more of what you guys refer to as being Palin flighty

LadyofSkyforest says,
Two words about Moonbeam - Fruit Fly...

California medfly crisis

Much research has been dedicated to means of controlling the medfly. In particular, use of the sterile insect technique has allowed the species to be eradicated from several areas.

In 1981, California Governor Jerry Brown, who had established a reputation as a strong environmentalist, was confronted with a serious medfly infestation in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was advised by the state's agricultural industry, and the US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection service (APHIS), to authorize airborne spraying of the region. Initially, in accordance with his environmental protection stance, he chose to authorize ground-level spraying only. Unfortunately, the infestation spread as the medfly reproductive cycle out-paced the spraying. After more than a month, millions of dollars of crops had been destroyed and billions of dollars more were threatened. Governor Brown then authorized a massive response to the infestation. Fleets of helicopters sprayed malathion at night, and the California National Guard set up highway checkpoints and collected many tons of local fruit; in the final stage of the campaign, entomologists released millions of sterile male medflies in an attempt to disrupt the insects' reproductive cycle.

Ultimately the infestation was eradicated, but both the Governor's delay and the scale of the action has remained controversial ever since. Some people claimed that malathion was toxic to humans, as well as insects. In response to such concerns, Brown's chief of staff, B. T. Collins, staged a news conference during which he publicly drank a small glass of malathion. Many people complained that, while the malathion may not have been very toxic to humans, the aerosol spray containing it was corrosive to car paint.

During the week of September 9, 2007, adult flies and their larvae were found in Dixon, California. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and cooperating county and federal agricultural officials started eradication and quarantine efforts in the area. Eradication was declared on August 8, 2008, when no "wild" (i.e. non-sterile) medflies were detected for three generations.
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On November 14, 2008, four adult flies were found in El Cajon, California. The San Diego County Agricultural Commission implemented a treatment plan, including distributing millions of sterile male flies, local produce quarantines, and ground spraying with organic pesticides.

Palin flighty pertains to quitting an office mid term after already functionally abandoning it to pursue other interests such as paid speaking engagements.

Carly Fiorina has announced her run against Barbara Boxer for US Senate. Now we get even more estrogen warfare.